[quixoticelixer-]

How do ruminants add nitrogen to the soil?

[function_seven]

They pee on it.

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[quixoticelixer-]

Yeah but where is that nitrogen coming from? It's coming from plants.

[function_seven]

Yeah, hence the “Nitrogen Cycle”.

[quixoticelixer-]

Yes but they do not actually add nitrogen to the soil

[noselasd]

Sure they do, they add nitrogen back to the soil that the plants extracted from the soil.

[Scoundreller]

Poop and pee.

[quixoticelixer-]

Nitrogen that they get from plants